Do you like shopping?

I hate shopping.

Um I do like grocery shopping though.

That's fun.

See all the different food but we have to be very, very careful when we go shopping or not.

Doesn't matter if you like to waste money and spend money.

Don't worry about this.

But if you're like me and you like to save money and you like sales.

This lesson is for you.

The problem is the corporations and the stores they're out to get you.

Do you want to trick you into spending more of your hard earned cash or money or putting things on your credit card?

So this lesson is called buyer Beware.

Beware means be careful if you're going to buy something, be careful now.

This could be the reason why it takes me two hours to go to the grocery store and buy food for a week.

A grocery store is like a food store um As opposed to a regular store which has closed and everything.

So a grocery store only sells food.

Those are my favorite ones.

Some grocery stores sell everything like towels, pots, pans, clothes, wow, that's like three hours for me.

So just in a supermarket or a grocery store, it takes me hours if you see me in the supermarket say hi, I might say hi back and throw grapes at you or something.

Um So the stores have um flyers.

Now flyer is a piece of paper with that advertises things.

You can find them online, which isn't a piece of paper or you can find them in the newspaper and they basically are attracting you to go to their stores.

So they have many different kinds of supermarkets, many brands many it's chaos.

But I'm going to give you some terms, it'll help you sort out the best deals.

We have to be careful of the words that we use or the promotions that they're actually giving us.

Things like flash sale.

Daily deals buy it now must buy.

These sales are basically timed.

So for example on a flash sale it could be from eight AM.

2 12 PM.

So this means you only have four hours to buy this product at 50% off.

If it's 12 or one it's full price.

If you go there at 7:58 and you buy it, it's full price, but only from nine a.m. To 12 p.m. It's half price.

What does this do?

This gets you to buy it.

Sometimes we call these impulse buys impulse buys me and you right now don't think about it.

Just give me your money, which you can do but we have to be careful of these daily deals, they're a little bit different from a flash sale from, from a fire sale.

Daily deals are usually monday And Tuesday, they have a special deal or on Saturday and Sunday this product is 599.

The all of the other days it's going to be 799.

So you can actually get some good deals, but if you miss the daily deal, you have to pay full price.

So again these are techniques to get you to the store on certain days it's the same with buy it now or must by these three are based on usually a day.

So for example sunday or monday it's half price.

Mm I don't know usually on the weekend things go on sale but that is kind of illogical because that's when everyone else goes shopping.

So one thing that I really like mm we could call this my hobby is something called price match.

So the store might call it price match or price promise.

This is a fantastic way for you to save money.

Um And this is for grocery store.

Sometimes electronic stores will also offer this but a price match or price promise basically means if you see the product at another store for a cheaper price they will give you the product at the same price as the other store.

Let me clarify this, let's say that you go to store a.

And this beautiful red marker.

Buy it now is 599 but I am a smart shopper.

And this other marker which is also red At the other store is 399.

If I take the flyer or the advertisement to the red marker Store A.

They will give me this price of this store.

Is that confusing.

So basically you go to the story go hey this store B has this for $5.

This is $10.

They will give it to you for $5.

Yes so basically they want you to shop only at their store, they don't want you to go to different stores.

Hey that saves us time.

So price match the price.

Promise is actually a really good thing.

But again you have to do your homework, you gotta check, you gotta look how much is it here?

How much is it here?

How much is it?

He cheaper get price match.

Cool.

Another thing that is very tricky sometimes gets me is if you see a sign like this it says the entire store 70% off.

No you guys watching this video on your phone you probably can't see this red writing that says up to on it says on selected styles.

So really you think oh if you're looking at this on a big screen you can see the red writing.

The entire store is 70% off.

So I can go into a store and everything is 70% off.

How exciting let's go uh and then you get to the store and you put the stuff on the counter and the person clips it through And it's not 70% off and you go what is going on?

And they go yeah it says on the sign in very small writing Up to 70% off on selected style.

So this means they will only have certain things that they choose 70% off stuff in the store might not even be on sale.

So you're there and you've just bought everything for full price almost.

So be careful.

Look very carefully at the sign.

As a rule by law, they actually must right up to and on selected styles.

This thing here is called an Astra's Astra's or star.

So always look for the Astros.

The Astros will show you the exception to something, so that means all great.

Oh there's an astra's not a great deal anymore.

So be careful.

Um I see this a lot in supermarkets, so if you buy three, it's $5 so you think oh great, great.

I'm gonna buy I'm gonna buy three for $5.

But you see the asterix again, by the way, it's called Asterix.

Like an asterisk.

Um You see this nasty little asterisk again.

Mhm.

And uh You can buy three for $5 but You don't actually want three watermelons Who can eat three watermelons will someone that's hungry.

I guess you just want to buy one of them.

So you think, okay, so if there's three for $5.01 of them is going to be a dollar 67 what a deal.

But then you get there and it's beep $2.

What happened?

So you have to be careful because sometimes they will charge you more If you don't buy 3?

So you actually have to buy three watermelons.

How are you going to carry those homes?

Don't buy 31 month.

So three for five.

Be careful this bogo bogo.

I gotta bogo.

Sounds like a booger Bogo means by one.

Get one.

So this can be pretty devious too.

So you buy one, get one now, this could mean you get one for free, doubt it or they might say get one for half price.

So that's still a deal.

You buy one at regular price.

The second one is half price One t shirt.

So you get two t shirts, they're $20 each.

$40.

If you buy one for half price, they would only be $30.

Oh Ronnie can do math.

This is amazing.

So buy one, get one.

Be careful.

It can be buy one, get one free or buy one get one for half price.

This crazy thing here, look at all these numbers to 41 mm two For one.

This is a good deal.

I think it's the numbers again.

So it means you buy two of them.

But you pay for one who get it free.

So you buy one thing, you get another thing for free.

These aren't very popular sales.

Um, you have to be careful because you know, there's going to be an asterisk on it and it's going to say on selected Styles only.

But this is a good deal too.

For one who?

Um, these two signs our wonderful, there's the markdown and the clearance now in Toronto in Canada we have a store that's wonderful.

I'm not going to give it any credit unless it wants to give me some sponsorship Anyways I always go to the clearance section of this store.

There's a red sign.

Thinking being as soon as I go in the store it's like a magnet come to the clear instruction Ronnie.

So I will always go to the clearance section or it could be called markdowns.

So I will buy something, it will be very cheap and I'll be very happy but actually I don't like it.

So I will go back to the store and try to return it with my receipt and they will say yeah no I'm sorry, we cannot return this.

Why why can you not return this?

I have a receipt.

I didn't use it.

It's a pillow.

No we can't because it's in the clearance of the markdown section.

Many stores will have different rules about the return or the refund policy.

Just a tip here.

If they tell you you can't return it always ask to speak to the manager and probably you can get a little refund.

Thank you.

If you complain enough you'll get what you want.

There's another technique and the little trick to get you to spend more money and it's called buy more, save more.

It's kind of the same ideas by $3 for $5.

But it works like this.

If I buy one marker it's $10.

But If I buy two markers I can get both of these markers for $19.

Oh I've saved the dollar.

I don't need to markers, I just need one but they get you to buy more and spend more money on things maybe you do or do not need if you need them.

Perfect.

If you don't be careful.

Um, another thing that stores love are some kind of points system.

They can be things like air miles or loyalty points or many stores have some kind of point system.

If you shop there and you collect points then you can get a discount or money back or or some promotions.

So they will have certain things if you buy this thing that you don't need or want, you will get 100 1000 extra points.

Oh great.

All that's amazing.

So if I buy this dirty rag that has water on it, I can get 1000 points.

How Much Does Rag?

$10.

How many points am I going to get?

1000?

What does that mean?

Nothing, maybe $1.

So guess what I don't need to rag.

Be careful with the loyalty points.

Be careful with all these tricks that they play.

I knew these Asterix are the worst.

I think the most humorous which means funny thing are these when I see these, there is a store in a mall that in a hotel, there's a store in a mall in a hotel that I usually go through and this store has been going out of business for the last three years.

So at first when you see or if you're a tourist and you're in the hotel and the store is going on a business, it must be a great sale, 70% off.

Okay, so you go, you buy something, you think you're getting a deal, maybe you go back to the same area a year later.

Like hey that store didn't go out of business.

There's another one called the store closing sale.

Same idea.

They will put up these beautiful huge signs to attract you, especially tourists to come into the store by this, we're going out of business.

It's half price.

Like what a deal.

They're not going out of business.

They're stars not closing.

But you think they are because they want you to impulse buy, they want you to buy their products, put it in your suitcase and take it home and put it on yourself and never use it.

That's what we do with souvenirs, isn't it?

Um, so we have to be careful with these flash sales by more, pay more, do more blah blah blah.

Be careful when you're shopping.